High Concept

The Potential Arrival of the Toaster Printer

We’ve seen the future. It’s a strange and fascinating place, filled with technological
advances too dangerous or mind-blowing to go into production at the present time. Take this design—still
on the drawing board, but too game-changing not to share. Please use this advance intel for
good...

You’re pretty good at making toast. You’re also pretty good at printing documents.

And yet you never considered combining these two poles of your life: the kitchen and the office, the sensual
and the verbal, fire-branded grain and the thrill of the written word...

It’s the next great leap in toaster technology—whenever the rest of the world catches up. Instead of
pushing your bread into two slots, you’ll stack it in a line on top of this magical device. Push the
print/toast button and, one by one, the slices will drop in and slowly emerge as the toast you so crave.
(Presumably, the jam/toner cartridge is still under development.)

There’s a second button to adjust the browning, but otherwise that’s it. So far, there’s only one in
existence, but it’s been winning design prizes across Central Europe based on its heretofore unprecedented
combination of print and toast technologies.